A middle school parent has been arrested after officials say she threatened teachers and staff.
Decatur police say that last Friday, around 10 a.m., officers received reports of a woman causing a disturbance at Beacon Hill Middle School.
When officers arrived, staff told officers 31-year-old Jakyra Arnold of Decatur was inside the school’s front office to meet with administrators. She is a parent of a child who attended the school.
Staff explained to police that she was unhappy with the school’s administrators began using vulgar language and issuing verbal threats.
When she exited the building, officers confronted Arnold and told her that she was under arrest for disorderly conduct and disruption of a public school. She then began to struggle with officers.
During the struggle, officials said she hit a school employee and bit a police officer.
Eventually, Arnold was handcuffed and taken to the DeKalb County Jail.
Arnold is charged with battery, obstruction of a police officer, disrupting public school, disorderly conduct, possession of marijuana within 1000 feet of a school and two outstanding warrants from other agencies.